I’m getting quite good at reading Indonesian – I’ve read more than 350 pages of parallel texts – so now is a good time to improve my listening comprehension. I asked friends for recommendations of online Indonesian videos and received the following recommendations:
Children’s stories being read (subtitles in Indonesian)
Jalan Jalan Men, a fun travel series – The authors also do other fun series. (subtitles in English)
Random skits, the mini-series Malam Malam Minggu was particularly recommended
Jelita, an Indonesian drama (subtitles in Malay)
Berita Harian TV (some news programs)
I also received a recommendation for the martial arts movie “The Raid” (Serbuan Maut) because it’s one of few Indonesian movies to make it outside of Indonesia.
And “Macabre” (Rumah Dara), though I won’t be watching it because it’s a horror-slasher.
Apparently Youtube has a neat feature where you can see what the most watched recently-added videos or most shared videos are for any country, gender and age group. Try it for your target country!
If you have more suggestions, please comment below.